“I didn’t do anything wrong,” Lerner said in her first press interview since the scandal broke 16 months ago. “I’m proud of my career and the job I did for this country.”
“Regardless of whatever else happens, I know I did the best I could under the circumstances and am not sorry for anything I did,” the 63-year-old said.
Called to testify before the House Oversight Committee, Lerner decided to take the Fifth and read a defiant speech declaring her innocence — one that Republicans argued waived her rights. She says she’d do it again.
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| I would do it again |
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I have one word for her... Alaska.
All the mucky mucks seem to do the Mussolini chin thrust.
She's acting like she is the victim.
The better to look down their noses at us.
Fuck them all and the commies they rode in on.
She probably doesn't think she did anything wrong.
She was doing battle with the bigots. Anything is allowed when you're fighting heroically against the bigots.
Victim lives in a $2.5 million home and receives 6 figures as a pension from the federal government.
Just saying...
Godwin alert.
Now certainly weaponizing the IRS is not as horrible as gassing whole swaths of people, but - the Nazis didn't think what they were doing was wrong. In fact, they thought it was for the greater good.
Leftists are the same everywhere throughout history. They are timeless.
Keep talking, hon.
That's what did in Goering, too.
Really? I thought it was his cholesterol?
I thought he killed himself because he found out he couldn't get bratwurst in prison or something.
Lerner's husband, sitting next to her as both spouse and solicitor, worked in the office of chief counsel at the IRS before becoming a partner at Sutherland, which did not require his family to move to a new city. His expertise gained while with his former employer, and continuing professional and social ties to that employer undoubtedly provide significant and ongoing benefits to his clients.
OT:
I just heard the news media on the local radio (KOA) give a free advertisement to Mark Udall. They never mentioned Cory Gardner - they just stated that John McCain will not be campaigning AGAINST Mark Udall because John McCain holds the Udall family in high esteem and he was pals with daddy Udall. Isn't that nice? News worthy!
Two things:
F the media
F John McCain.
Not that I care one wit that Mccain isn't campaigning for Cory (no one cares old man!) but that his open statement is really a endorsement of a dynasty democrat.
This is why when the R party calls & asks for my money I say "get rid of McCain or you won't see a cent from me." and I hang up.
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McCain: And I will not, I will refuse to mention my esteemed honorable opponent's middle name. I rise above even the hint of criticism of my noble colleague from across the aisle. Here, without even being asked let me cross that aisle. And if that country bumpkin skirt who was foisted on me as a running mate dares to show anything but the utmost respect for my most esteemed fellow statist of the other party I...I will tolerate her...barely. Is that sufficient, Mr. Rove? May I kiss your ring?
So then why take the 5th? Like I told you folks, remember what I said? Nothing would happen. Her lack of being prosecuted has resulted in this emboldened admission. No one will be prosecuted for any of the criminally negligent goings on with this administration. In fact, they all seem to cut deals that ends up in their favor. Again, I hate saying I told you so, but...
When someone commits a serious crime, and then has no remorse and they admit they would do it again, then that person needs to be imprisoned so they can stop being a threat to others and to give them a little time to reconsider their life of crime.
This woman is the poster child for what is wrong with public sector employees and government in general in 2014. I believe that you have to be her kind of delusional and corrupt to be successful in that environment.
You don't have to be delusional or corrupt, necessarily. You just have to be a moron that can't see your hand in front of your face, in daylight. Which attribute gets you a PhD (or maybe a law degree) nowadays.
And a government job. Forgot that bit.
@xray/
Isn't a "government job" the Ultima Thule of all socialist-based societies?
Yes, virgil, it is.
Which, correct me if I'm wrong, is any work subsidized by taxes.
No matter lofty goals of such.
She'd already be doing hard time if she was a Republican.
Scooter Libby was sentenced to 30 months in prison (later commuted) and fined $250,000 and got his bar card revoked for inconsistent statements to FBI v. grand jury about the chronology of events leading to the outing of a CIA desk jockey whom everyone already knew had been outed by someone else.
Totally fucked up double standard.
virgil, I think you mean "Shangri-La". The "Ultima Thule" of socialist societies would be some obscure frozen land of myth, like a productive, well-paying private-sector job in an entrepreneurial industry.
Dinesh D'Souza was sentenced to 5 years probation, 8 months in a "community confinement center" where he will receive "therapeutic counseling," and $30,000. For illegally organizing 2 friends to send $10,000 each to a friend's losing Senate campaign. (The winner of the Senate campaign was totally truthful Kristen Gillibrand.)
I hope he makes a movie about it. Doing time for $20,000 in campaign contributions. Meanwhile, not one person from the Obama campaign was ever even prosecuted despite the millions in fraudulent foreign and other credit card transactions, and social justice orgs funneling money and votes to Obama.
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